Month: October 2006

This is a more personal (and sillier) video blog post, about being back in Edinburgh and a little bit about the origins of Elgg. I’ve used it kind of as an excuse for more editing practice – I’ve been using Windows Movie Maker, but I wonder if there’s something better that’s free and/or open source […]

Optimising page load time from a Google engineer. The techies among you may be interested in his findings, including the major discovery that splitting static files over four hostnames dramatically decreases perceived response time. Worth a read if web administration is even a small part of your job.

The mystery of the Elgg name continues! Douglas’s post made me laugh out loud. Thanks for the smile 🙂 I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned the actual origin of the name here before, but for now, I will remain tight-lipped and hope that Elgg joins Google in the ranks of brand-names-as-words.

For the past couple of days I’ve been in Barcelona in order to attend the Bazaar Project’s seminar, Hey Dude, Where’s My Data? Flippant name, important concept (one that I’ve been banging on about for ages in this blog): the free tools out there on the web aren’t really free. They present an important and […]